Windows 8.1 Preview Download
For those who didn't notice it, Microsoft has released it officially.
Click to download:
Windows 8.1 Preview ISO files - Microsoft Windows
Multilingual, Expires obviously.
Opinion (notices):
- Tiling Metro apps is one of the iconic changes in this release. It's pretty useful
- Skydrive is in your face now and is expanded by default instead of My Documents (or Libraries things), something MS expects people to deal with since we are in the 'Cloud' era, something I'm totally against.
- While the start menu is more customizable now, I'd prefer the right click -> show all programs instead of aiming onto that small arrow
- Recent documents aren't back, this is very counter productive for me, an 'enthusiast' Notepad user :D
Start screen background isn't customizable, perhaps this is only a Preview regression? screw them, it changed location and now Personalization is better and has more options.- Boot to desktop, clicking 'Desktop' wasn't a big deal anyway
That's all I noticed, because I don't use 'Apps', I'll try them later and maybe speak my opinion about them.